btdt potty training advice

My son is newly (two weeks or so) potty trained except for poop. He refuses to go on the potty for that. Either he holds it in until his bedtime when he gets a diaper or he hides in a corner, takes off his underwear and poops on the floor. Anyone else deal with this and have any tips to help me out?

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Not a BTDT, but I do ABA therapy and potty train kids of all ages. Pooping is the hardest part of the training. If you catch him in the corner, grunting, etc straight to the potty even if he is done, he should 'dump' the diaper in the toilet. If he makes a mess, he needs to clean it up or at least participate in clean up (depending on age). It is mostly catching them in the act and moving it to the toilet for BM to train that is where it goes. Good luck!

We used bribery. If he needed to poop and told us he could watch a show on the iPad while he went. We had to contend with consipation too. So it started by having him sit on the toilet about 15 min after dinner and just try. You could use a book too.

Avoiding pooping on the potty is pretty common... I remember DD (dear daughter) would be afraid of it because it wasn't as comfortable and/or would take longer than just peeing. We would often give her books to look at while sitting on the toilet, or read to her to help distract her while she sat and got through all of it. We also gave her 2 m&m's or skittles for pooping and only 1 for peeing. She totally understood the difference and was all about it.

We used bribery too. M&M's for pee and poop in the potty. Luckily neither of mine had a problem pooping in the potty. Good luck!

Recently, I wanted them to switch from going in the toddler potty to going on the big potty (sick of cleaning that thing out!). So I used bribery again with their favorite treats and it worked immediately.

We had this with DS. We talked up big boy underpants and he wanted to wear them, but couldn't until he would poop in the potty. When he would go to a corner and grunt, we would take him to the potty. Eventually, he got the hang of it.

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